Walgreens Says It Won’t Sell Abortion Pills In Kansas After State AG Threatens Legal Action

Walgreens announced Friday it will not be dispense Kansas abortion pills after Kris Kobach, Kansas’ state attorney, sent a letter to the pharmacy informing it of possible legal action if it accepts President Joe Biden’s plan for abortion-for-all.

Walgreens, the first pharmacy in America, was established in January. An announcement It would sell the lethal chemical abortion drug, mifepristone in stores and via mail. New rules Biden’s Food and Drug Administration is designed to allow dangerous at-home abortions and circumvent pro-life laws in red state. Mifepristone is one of two drugs that kills and exterminates preborn babies from their mother’s womb.

Kobach was to blame for the “ends-justify-the-means” Biden administration was accused of muddying the issue. They also objected to drugs being sold in Kansas. “I have become aware of your company’s recently announced plan to provide abortifacients through its mail-order pharmacy business,” Kobach Write Danielle Gray, Walgreens executive, in a Feb. 6 letter “As the chief law enforcement officer in Kansas, I am writing to advise you that this plan is illegal, and Kansas will not hesitate to enforce the law.”

Kobach says Walgreens’ plans violate both state and federal laws. Kansas statute Requires that drugs used to induce abortion, such as mifepristone, be approved “be given to the patient by or in the same room and in the physical presence of the physician who prescribed, dispensed or otherwise provided the drug or prescription to the patient.” Biden’s FDA is also available. Approve Kobach points out that mifepristone can be sent by mail to DIY chemical abortions. Title 18, Section 1461 Code of the United States “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion” It is taken into consideration “nonmailable matter” They cannot therefore be mailed.

“Ordinarily, the national government’s steadfast determination not to enforce the law would be the end of things,” Kobach wrote. “But §1461 is not a normal criminal statute because it can be enforced by an ordinary private-party lawsuit,” According to the attorney general, private parties are allowed under this law. Title 18, Section 1964 To sue entities who violate Section 1461 and other statutes.

Gray, the executive vice-president of Walgreens Boots Alliance which is responsible for Walgreens pharmacies was quick to respond to Kobach. :

Walgreens will not dispense Mifepristone in your state. We also won’t ship Mifepristone to your state from any of the pharmacies. We will notify you if this approach is changed.

Kansas is not resisting federal pressure to offer virtually on-demand, postal abortions in the wake Roe v. Wade being overturned. Twenty-two additional state attorneys general Walgreens and CVS have also been warned about the potentially dangerous and illegitimate plan.

Democrats are promoting it as health care. However, chemical abortions, which account to More than half Abortions in the United States are extremely dangerous for the mother and unborn baby, due to the absence of medical oversight